I can actually feel brain cells explode every time I hear that line. That one and, “That’s not who we are.” The nonsense of those sentences needs exploration before someone carves them in stone. Let’s look at the word values. The word comes to us from Old French, no doubt riding across the English Channel with William the Conqueror in 1066. (That alone should give us pause.) At that time it meant to be worth -- William was so interested in the worth of all the lands he’d conquered that he took an inventory called The Domesday Book. Value appears not to have been used then in the philosophical way it is today. Today, especially when presented in the vague plural, it refers to whatever current, politically correct ideas waft about the interbunk, or to which propaganda is trending. Values are not the same thing as morals. A person who espouses values will place a woman’s career options above the life of an unborn child, thereby choosing...(Read Full Article)